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Orofacial pain is a noxious, painful experience in the region of the face and /or oral cavity. According to International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), pain is defined as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual and potential tissue damage”. Chronic pain continues after the expected time of recovery.

Orofacial Pain Group

Publications

    Awards

    South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) and King’s College London £3,825,000.00 2017

     

    Translational research MRC Grant, ‘Stratifying Chronic Pain Patients By Pathological Mechanism- A Multimodal Investigation Using Functional MRI, Psychometric And Clinical Assessment.’ £2.4M 2017

     

    Grunenthal 2014 and 2016 10K

     

    Awards

    • Awarded Honorary Fellowship AAOMS Sept 2017
    • Won "José Luis Ferrer Award" from the Spanish Society of Craniomandibular disorders and Orofacial Pain (SEDCYDO)
    • 32 international invited key note/ plenary and distinguished lecture invitations over last 3 years
    • University Leuven co supervised PhD and Visiting Noel Martin Chair Sydney University
    • Sydney University visiting Chair Noel Martin Award 2018-2020
    • Distinguished Speaker Invitation Tuttleman Family Foundation and the Temple University Department of Periodontology and Oral Implantology
    • Invited Sir Thomas Kay Sidney Visiting Professor, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago 2021

    Activities

    Orofacial pain website
    Orofacial Pain website

    Demystifying chronic pain in the head, face and mouth.

    Clinical image
    Innovative clinical service

    Professor Renton leads an internationally recognized orofacial pain service. Multi-disciplinary including neurology, clinical psychology, oral medicine, oral surgery Liaison Psychiatry, ENT and neurosurgery at Dental King's College London. Clinical sphenopalatine simulation service KCH Neurology & St Thomas Hospital Orofacial pan and headache service (and other interventional procedures for head and neck pain) collaboration with 2 centres InPut Pain Management St Thomas Hospital (Lead Prof Adnan AL Kaisi) and Neurology KCHFT/KCL Lead Professor Goadsby

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      Policy

      Chair development group Mandibuular Third molar surgery FDS RCS Guidelines 2019 Clinical Reviewer Antimicrobial Stewardship Guidelines for dentistry FDS FGDP collaboration Lead developer of AMS clinical online scenarios training, collaborative work with PHE External Clinical advisor for NHS Obudsman Key learning materials T Renton G Gerrard N Seoudi N Palmer Antimicrobial stewardship 30 CPD online modules for dental teams Link https://www.baos.org.uk/elearning/ Endorsed by NHS England, GDC, BDA, FGDP, BAOS, HEE and PHE.

        http://www.trigeminalnerve.org.uk
        Trigeminal Foundation Nerve Injuries

        Helping to prevent, educate and manage.

        Impact

        • Invited member International Classification of Orofacial Pain (ICOP) a grouping of international specialists from IASP, HIS, ICHD, AAPO, AACP forming the first all encompassing diagnostic criteria for acute and chronic orofacial pain.
        • Patient safety work, websites (Trigeminalnerve.org.uk and Orofacialpain.org.uk), LocSSIPs lead, lecturing
        • M3M and AMs guideline development
        • Invited member National Advisory Board Human factors in Dentistry and GDC dental forum
        • Led the development of Oral Surgery as one of two new dental specialties since 2000.
        • Changed dental practice in relation to LA, M3M, Endo and Implant risk assessment and surgical practice Impact Case for KCL last REF

        Publications

          Awards

          South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) and King’s College London £3,825,000.00 2017

           

          Translational research MRC Grant, ‘Stratifying Chronic Pain Patients By Pathological Mechanism- A Multimodal Investigation Using Functional MRI, Psychometric And Clinical Assessment.’ £2.4M 2017

           

          Grunenthal 2014 and 2016 10K

           

          Awards

          • Awarded Honorary Fellowship AAOMS Sept 2017
          • Won "José Luis Ferrer Award" from the Spanish Society of Craniomandibular disorders and Orofacial Pain (SEDCYDO)
          • 32 international invited key note/ plenary and distinguished lecture invitations over last 3 years
          • University Leuven co supervised PhD and Visiting Noel Martin Chair Sydney University
          • Sydney University visiting Chair Noel Martin Award 2018-2020
          • Distinguished Speaker Invitation Tuttleman Family Foundation and the Temple University Department of Periodontology and Oral Implantology
          • Invited Sir Thomas Kay Sidney Visiting Professor, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago 2021

          Activities

          Orofacial pain website
          Orofacial Pain website

          Demystifying chronic pain in the head, face and mouth.

          Clinical image
          Innovative clinical service

          Professor Renton leads an internationally recognized orofacial pain service. Multi-disciplinary including neurology, clinical psychology, oral medicine, oral surgery Liaison Psychiatry, ENT and neurosurgery at Dental King's College London. Clinical sphenopalatine simulation service KCH Neurology & St Thomas Hospital Orofacial pan and headache service (and other interventional procedures for head and neck pain) collaboration with 2 centres InPut Pain Management St Thomas Hospital (Lead Prof Adnan AL Kaisi) and Neurology KCHFT/KCL Lead Professor Goadsby

            Policy image
            Policy

            Chair development group Mandibuular Third molar surgery FDS RCS Guidelines 2019 Clinical Reviewer Antimicrobial Stewardship Guidelines for dentistry FDS FGDP collaboration Lead developer of AMS clinical online scenarios training, collaborative work with PHE External Clinical advisor for NHS Obudsman Key learning materials T Renton G Gerrard N Seoudi N Palmer Antimicrobial stewardship 30 CPD online modules for dental teams Link https://www.baos.org.uk/elearning/ Endorsed by NHS England, GDC, BDA, FGDP, BAOS, HEE and PHE.

              http://www.trigeminalnerve.org.uk
              Trigeminal Foundation Nerve Injuries

              Helping to prevent, educate and manage.

              Impact

              • Invited member International Classification of Orofacial Pain (ICOP) a grouping of international specialists from IASP, HIS, ICHD, AAPO, AACP forming the first all encompassing diagnostic criteria for acute and chronic orofacial pain.
              • Patient safety work, websites (Trigeminalnerve.org.uk and Orofacialpain.org.uk), LocSSIPs lead, lecturing
              • M3M and AMs guideline development
              • Invited member National Advisory Board Human factors in Dentistry and GDC dental forum
              • Led the development of Oral Surgery as one of two new dental specialties since 2000.
              • Changed dental practice in relation to LA, M3M, Endo and Implant risk assessment and surgical practice Impact Case for KCL last REF

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              Centre for Oral, Clinical & Translational Sciences

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